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Monday, December 21, 2015

- Stefano D'Agostini, Italy, technical
head of the Vatican Television (CTV), as director of the CTV.

- Gregory Burke, communications adviser
at the Secretariat of State, as deputy director of the Holy See Press
Office.

On Sunday 20 December, the Holy Father
accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese
of Orange, United States of America, presented by Bishop Dominic Mai
Luong upon reaching the age limit.

On Saturday 19 December the Holy Father
appointed:

- Fr. Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti,
S.M.M., as bishop of Vijayawada (area 8,374, population 5,898,011,
Catholics 283,062, priests 229, 1,132 religious), India. The
bishop-elect was born in Peddautapally, India in 1952, gave his
religious vows in 1980 and was ordained a priest in the same year. He
holds a licentiate in biblical theology from the Dharmaram Vidya
Kshetram in Bangalore, India and a doctorate in spiritual theology
from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He has served in a
number of roles, including rector of the minor seminary and of the
Montfort Theologate in Bangalore, provincial counsellor, provincial
superior, deputy president of the Conference of Religious of India,
director of the Anugraha Institute for Poor Girls, director of the
Montfort Marian Centre, Bangalore, and procurator general and
postulator of the Congregation of Montfort Fathers in Rome. He is
currently provincial of his congregation in Rome.

- Msgr. Leszek Leszkiewicz as auxiliary
of Tarnow (area 7,566, population 1,097,479, Catholics 1.091,829,
priests 1,455, religious 1.145), Poland. The bishop-elect was born in
Gorlice, Poland in 1970 and was ordained a priest in 1996. He holds a
licentiate in missiology from the Pontifical Urbanian University in
Rome, and has served in a number of roles including parish vicar,
missionary in Ecuador, deputy director of the department for missions
of the diocese of Tarnow, and prefect of discipline in the major
seminary of Tarnow. He is currently vicar forane and pastor of the
parish of St. Nicholas, and custodian of the shrine to the Blessed
Virgin in Bochnia.

- Cardinal Vinko Puljic, archbishop of
Vrhbosna, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as his special envoy to the
celebrations to be held on 3 February 2016 to commemorate the 17th
centenary of the martyrdom of St. Blaise, patron of the diocese of
Dubrovnik, Croatia, and the 600th anniversary of the abolition of
slavery by the Republic of Ragusa.

- Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski,
president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (for
Health Pastoral Care) as his special envoy to the celebration of the
24th World Day of the Sick, to be held in Nazareth on 11 February
2016.

- Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary of the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications, as adjunct secretary of
the Pontifical Council for Culture, elevating him to the dignity of
bishop.